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Data Center Land & Power Intelligence
Independent analysis of the real estate, zoning, power, and infrastructure constraints shaping data center development.
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RealEstateDataCenter.com tracks the physical real estate behind the digital economy: land acquisition, powered sites, entitlement risk, grid access, farmland conversion, and market economics.
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What we track
Land Deals
Data center land acquisition activity: who is buying, where, at what basis, and on what terms.
Power & Grid Access
Power availability, interconnection queues, substations, and transmission: the constraints repricing data center site selection.
Zoning & Permitting
Data center zoning and permitting outcomes, moratoriums, special-use battles, and entitlement risk by jurisdiction.
Farmland Conversion
The economics of converting agricultural land to compute: pricing, timelines, and community response.
Market Reports
Data center market intelligence across major U.S. and European markets, from supply pipelines to absorption.
Land Valuation
Data center land valuation frameworks: comp analysis, power premiums, entitlement value, and option structures.
Institutional Research Notes
Concise institutional data center research for investors, lenders, appraisers, and developers underwriting the sector.
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Where the land story is unfolding
- Northern VirginiaCore
- TexasExpansion
- PhoenixExpansion
- AtlantaGrowth
- ChicagoCore
- OhioEmerging
- IowaEmerging
- EuropeInternational
Why it matters
Data center development is no longer just a technology story
It is increasingly a land, power, zoning, infrastructure, and entitlement-risk story. The binding constraints on new capacity are physical: acreage near transmission, substation capacity, interconnection timelines, water, and the willingness of local jurisdictions to approve projects.
That shift moves the center of gravity toward real estate. Investors, developers, appraisers, brokers, landowners, and utilities now need data center real estate analysis with the same rigor applied to any institutional asset class. That is the gap this publication exists to fill.
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Market Outlook
I Read 10 Data Center Reports So You Don't Have To
Where the data center real estate market stands today: capacity, power, AI workloads, entitlement risk, and what appraisers should underwrite.
Land Valuation
How to Underwrite a Data Center: An Appraiser's Checklist
Power, PUE, tenant credit, capex per MW, density, staffing, residual value, and entitlement risk. The eight things to check before you put a value on a data center.
Land Economics
Powered Land: What Data Center Land Costs per Megawatt in 2026
Dirt isn't priced by the acre anymore. It's priced by the megawatt. The $584,000/MW figure, explained.
Entitlement Risk
Data Center Zoning Battles: What Institutional Investors Should Watch
Moratoriums, setbacks, noise ordinances, and the jurisdictions writing the new playbook.
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